Stand for storage-battery accessories.



H. B. MONTGOMERY.

STAND FOR STORAGE BATTERY ACCESSORIES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28. ms.

Paten ted May 6, 1919.

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HORACE B. MONTGOMERY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

STAND FOR STORAGE-BATTERY ACCESSORIES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1919.

Application filed .Tune 28, 1916. Serial No. 106,307.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE B. MoNTeoM- ERY, a citizen 0f the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Stand for Storage-Battery Accessories, of which the following is a specification.

An automatic water filler is an example of an accessory that is used in and in connection with the care, operation and maintenance of storage batteries, and it is the principal object of the present invention to provide a holder or stand for such accessories which shall be comparatively inexpensive to make and easy toapply to and remove from the cell, and which, while itself supported by the plate lugs, is, nevertheless, adapted to sufficiently hold the accessory in proper position.

The invention will be claimed at the end hereof but will be first described in connection with the embodiment of it chosen for illustration in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1, is a top or plan view of a stand embodying features of the invention, show ing also, and partly in section, portions of a cell.

Fig. 2, is a side view of the stand showing, partly in section and partly in elevation, a part of a cell and an accessory, and

F 1g. 3, is a perspective view of the stand.

In the drawings the stand consists of a frame 1, provided with an opening 2, and with supporting legs 3 and 4:, whereof the leg 4, is provided with a foot 5, and with adjacent beveled faces 6, and whereof the leg 3, is provided with two feet 7 and 8, having a countersunk portion 9, between them, and with two faces 10 and 11.

In use the inner portions of the faces 6, rest upon two adjacent plate-lugs 12, with the foot 5, depending between the lugs, and the faces 10 and 11, rest upon the outer two of three plate-lugs with the feet 7 and 8, depending between the outer plate-lugs and the intermediate plate lug which does not contact with the leg 3, by reason of the clearance afforded by the countersunk portion 9. The support afforded the frame is firm, since it is of the nature of a threepoint support, and the frame may be readily removed and applied, as is obvious. The accessory 13, is mounted in the opening 2, and its depending portion 14:, if shaped as shown, is kept clear of the portion 15, of

the cell by reason of the fact that the hole 2, is arranged at one side of the center of the frame 1. It may be remarked that this location of the opening 2, is rather special to the type of cell and accessory chosen for illustration. The described stand may be made, for example, of wood impregnated with a suitable acid resisting substance.

What I claim is:

A stand for storage battery accessories consisting of a frame provided with an accessory-holding-opening and with supporting legs of which one has one lug engaging foot and adjacent beveled supporting faces and of which the other has two lug engaging feet with a countersunk portion between them and two supporting faces outside of p the lugs, substantially as described.

HORACE B. MONTGOMERY.

Copies 0! this patent may be obtained for live cents each, by addressing the "flommislioner of Patent! Washington, D. G. 

